linux

Linux users are not allowed to make fun of Microsoft for breaking things and making the user experience generally worse as long as Wayland exists

#Linux #Ubuntu #Wayland #Tech #Technology

Serious and important question to all #Linux users, in particular #Fedora users (in particular #Fedora44 if this makes any difference)

It looks like I will be needing to swap back to using an Nvidia graphics card (RTX 2060). Is it still a miserable experience with drivers? And if so, how do I make it not so miserable that I get PTSD?

PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999) https://lobste.rs/s/np84oh #linux #security #virtualization
https://pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape

Does moving a GPU server's request loop into the kernel save CPU? https://lobste.rs/s/6himy4 #ai #linux
https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/10/17/bpf-gpu-server/

dwm 6.8 dropped on Jan 30 and this one deserves attention.

Less than a month after 6.7, suckless pushed a security fix and bumped
the version. That's pretty rare for dwm.

If you noticed Telegram's image previews shaking in 6.7, that's why
a wrong return value check broke atom property reading entirely.

Patch: https://git.suckless.org/dwm/commit/a9aa0d8ffbb548b0b1f9f755557aef2482c0f820.html

Six lines changed.
Update your build.

#dwm #suckless #security #linux

I use dmenu as my main UI, not just dmenu_run.

Super+Space opens a small menu script that launches apps and system actions (WiFi, reboot, shutdown),
all keyboard-driven via sxhkd.

No panel, no mouse menus, WM-agnostic.

#!/bin/sh

ROOT=doas

# Open a terminal (st) with the given title and command
# example: st -t terminal_title -e command 
term() {
    st -t "$1" -e "${@:2}"
}

choice=$(printf "%s\n" \
    "Browser" \
    "Terminal" \
    "IRC" \
    "Mail" \
    "PDF" \
    "Editor" \
    "Files" \
    "Mixer" \
    "WiFi" \
    "Bluetooth" \
    "Reboot" \
    "Shutdown" |
    dmenu -i -l 12 -p "Menu" \
        -fn "Iosevka Term-11" \
        -nb '#000000' -nf '#ffffff' \
        -sb '#005f87' -sf '#ffffff')

case "$choice" in
    Browser)    firefox ;;
    Terminal)   term st tmux ;;
    IRC)        term senpai senpai ;;
    Mail)       term mutt mutt ;;
    PDF)        pdf-open.sh ;;
    Editor)     geany ;;
    Files)      term fff fff ;;
    Mixer)      term alsamixer alsamixer ;;
    WiFi)       term wifitui "$ROOT" wifitui ;;
    Bluetooth)  blueman-manager ;;
    Reboot)     "$ROOT" /sbin/reboot ;;
    Shutdown)   "$ROOT" /sbin/poweroff ;;
esac

Curious how many dwm users do something similar vs bars / mouse menus.

#dwm #dmenu #sxhkd #x11 #linux #suckless

Real-time Software On Linux: How Hard Can It Be? via @noelle https://lobste.rs/s/jp6tfb #video #linux #zig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0D0rFdU6HY